In a project we have a form with some input
fields and a textarea
.
It is a multilangual project and if some text is translated in German the use of chars like ü and ö are very common.
In the past we never had problems saving and retrieving these from a database.
We use the utf8_general_ci
collation in our tables.
Today we got a strange behaviour when submitting the form.
All special chars entered in the input
fields seem to dissapear.
(They are even gone in $_POST['field_name'], at first we thought it had something to do with codeigniter's input class)
However, any special chars entered in the textarea
ARE in the $_POST
array...
Did anyone have this problem before?